1.7.1 2003 Compilation start-up crash

I'll start this out with the statement that the engine functions fine on this machine, so this is remote data. That being said: a straight out of the gate recompile using the vs 2003 build set seems to be crashing a few sse1 machines. data excerpts follow:

the application failed to initialize properly (0x80000003)

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looking over 0xc000001d seems to indicate it's an sse incompatibility flag

so ran the following tests:

sent the released t3d.exe: functions
recompiled from a fresh download: crash
sse off: initialises the window, dies immediately afterwards
sse1 compiler setup: same as sse off...

thoughts?